Just a few random TV related events that happened on December 12. Discuss or comment as you please……
1915: Those blue eyes open for the first time: Mr. Francis Albert Sinatra is born in Hoboken, New Jersey.
1923: Game show host Bob Barker is born in Darrington, Washington.
1930: TV anchorman Bill Beutel is born in Cleveland, Ohio.
1954: The BBC airs a controversial live TV adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian novel "1984." The bleak, graphic, and explicit nature of the program arouses passionate complaints from many viewers who were accustomed to more innocuous television fare. In spite of the reaction, the BBC later performs the teleplay again, this time preserving it on a telerecording (kinescope), still a relatively infrequently used technology at the time. The program is thus one of the oldest surviving British television dramas.
1958: Actress Sheree J. Wilson (Dallas, Walker Texas Ranger) is born in Rochester, Minnesota.
1971: Television pioneer David Sarnoff dies in New York City, aged 80.
1975: Actress Mayim Bialik (Blossom) is born in San Diego, California.
1988: Producer/writer Dick Clair (It's a Living, The Facts of Life, Mama's Family) dies of multiple AIDS-related infections, aged 57. A longtime supporter of cryonics (and a member of the Cryonics Society of California since the 60’s), his desire to be frozen upon death led to a legal battle, and a court decision that established the right of persons to be cryonically preserved in the state of California.
1994: Tampa Bay viewers see a 3-way affiliation swap take place as WTVT (channel 13) moves from CBS to Fox, WFTS (channel 28) from Fox to ABC and WTSP (channel 10) from ABC to CBS.
2006: Actor Peter Boyle (Everybody Loves Raymond) dies in New York City, aged 71.
(Just a little featurette I hope to do as time permits. It’s an entirely random selection based on a quick Net search, and is not meant to be comprehensive. So, don’t post nasty messages about “you forgot THIS” or “how could you not mention THAT?” Do so, and I’ll just take my keyboard and go home…..)
1915: Those blue eyes open for the first time: Mr. Francis Albert Sinatra is born in Hoboken, New Jersey.
1923: Game show host Bob Barker is born in Darrington, Washington.
1930: TV anchorman Bill Beutel is born in Cleveland, Ohio.
1954: The BBC airs a controversial live TV adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian novel "1984." The bleak, graphic, and explicit nature of the program arouses passionate complaints from many viewers who were accustomed to more innocuous television fare. In spite of the reaction, the BBC later performs the teleplay again, this time preserving it on a telerecording (kinescope), still a relatively infrequently used technology at the time. The program is thus one of the oldest surviving British television dramas.
1958: Actress Sheree J. Wilson (Dallas, Walker Texas Ranger) is born in Rochester, Minnesota.
1971: Television pioneer David Sarnoff dies in New York City, aged 80.
1975: Actress Mayim Bialik (Blossom) is born in San Diego, California.
1988: Producer/writer Dick Clair (It's a Living, The Facts of Life, Mama's Family) dies of multiple AIDS-related infections, aged 57. A longtime supporter of cryonics (and a member of the Cryonics Society of California since the 60’s), his desire to be frozen upon death led to a legal battle, and a court decision that established the right of persons to be cryonically preserved in the state of California.
1994: Tampa Bay viewers see a 3-way affiliation swap take place as WTVT (channel 13) moves from CBS to Fox, WFTS (channel 28) from Fox to ABC and WTSP (channel 10) from ABC to CBS.
2006: Actor Peter Boyle (Everybody Loves Raymond) dies in New York City, aged 71.
(Just a little featurette I hope to do as time permits. It’s an entirely random selection based on a quick Net search, and is not meant to be comprehensive. So, don’t post nasty messages about “you forgot THIS” or “how could you not mention THAT?” Do so, and I’ll just take my keyboard and go home…..)
